Category Archives: music
From notated music to audible sounds
This is the second post in a series devoted to music from a mathematical point of view. The first post dealt with written intervals and notes; the moral of that post was that there is some structure (a vector space) … Continue reading
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Algebraic structure of musical intervals and pitches
Here’s the first in what will hopefully be a series of related posts about one particular (limited) aspect of the interaction between music and mathematics. In my mind, I’ll be explaining things to a hypothetical musically uneducated mathematician, who should … Continue reading